The school children of a modern convent .....an occasional visit expands into a philosophy of life a meditation on ageing and love

A carving, a vision gyres of history

The Greek myth sweeps into a lyrical history apocalyptic in its vivid terror bringing into play the gyres of Yeats

Yeats troubled conscience the horrors of the first world war the unleashing of violence the disquiet and disintegration of an entire civilization

The aftermath of the first world war ....a prayer for a civilization in distress

The poem as a lament a vision a commemoration .... symbolism...

The momentous event in Ireland's long struggle for freedom from British rule

The enduring elegy which brimmed over into life and the world at large the dip and rise in his reputation a modern contemporary poet

The resolution and renewal of pure love and transcendental faith

The poet goes beyond private grief beyond the Victorian age to grapple with the eternal struggle of humanity